You’ll find below our current selection of material by and relating to Robert Louis Stevenson. He travelled extensively throughout Europe, the United States and the Pacific, and his travel writing is considered some of the most evocative and insightful of his time. Moreover, Stevenson's life was marked by a spirit of adventure and wanderlust, which he reflected in his writing. His most famous works, Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, are considered classic of adventure and gothic fiction respectively. His works have had a significant cultural impact and have been adapted into plays, films, and other media. His writing was also marked by an appreciation for the beauty of the natural world and a deep interest in the human experience. His works often dealt with themes of good and evil, the duality of human nature, and the search for identity. Stevenson's writing is characterized by its vivid storytelling, richly drawn characters, and its exploration of complex moral and psychological issues. Hyde, and handsome sets of his collected works. Rare books by Robert Louis Stevenson, including first edition, signed, and finely bound copies of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr.
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His temperament is declining and he seems incessantly agitated and nervous. Roderick Usher complements the forbidding surroundings terrifically. This fantastic imagery sets the mood of the twisted events. an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden hued" (55). The narrator describes the landscape surrounding as having, ". The narrator himself comments on the discerning properties of the aged house "What was it, I paused to think, what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the house of Usher" (54)? The house is further developed in the narrator's references to the house. Also dramatic is the development of the actual house. Did the house of Usher truly "fall"? Or, is this event simply symbolism? In either case, it makes a dramatic conclusion. For instance, even the conclusion of the story lends it self to argument. Many things in the story are unclear to the reader but no less interesting. The reader is captured by the twisted reality. The Fall of The House of Usher is an eerie, imaginative story. Strengths: I loved the island, agricultural setting, and all of the details about what it would be like to live on an island. Can Billie make sure her family gets along, her pumpkins are successful, and her friendship with Sam gets repaired? As the summer progresses, she and her friend Cami work on their pumpkins and hope for the best. Billie sells honey at a local farmer's market, so much of her energy is focused on her hives, and the family llamas (who spit a lot!) are her responsibility as well. Her mother goes into labor early and brings home a colicky younger brother for Billie and her sister Marylee, and a grandfather she has never met shows up unexpectedly. Sam has gotten his pumpkin seeds in early this year, but Billie is facing many challenges with her family. Last year, her best friend Sam beat her, and the two have had difficulties for a variety of reasons, even though they reigned as polka king and queen at the last year's festival. Every year, the community has a pumpkin race, and Billie has been the champion most years. Billie lives on Madeline Island in Wisconsin, and her family has bees, llamas, and some crops. Tobias washes the blood from Tris's feet in the bathtub and cleans her cuts, and for the first time so that he can hear, Tris tells him she loves him. There they run into Uriah and Christina, but Tobias tells them Tris needs to rest, and takes her to his old house in Abnegation. Peter says that the only reason people do something for someone else in this world is because they either want to get something out of it, or they are in debt.Īfter a few hours, they head to the Abnegation sector of the city. His answer is that he cannot be in anyone's debt, and he was tortured by the idea that he owed Tris something for when she shoved him out of the way of an oncoming bullet in the Amity compound. They duck into the nearest building, and Tris asks Peter why he did it. They decide to take the least logical route away from Erudite so they will not be found, and Tris realizes that the least logical thing to do would be to stop running. They slide down the trash chute to get out of the building, and Tris is appalled that Peter of all people would help her live. Peter carries her out, and they meet Tobias, who is at first distraught but understands after Peter explains and protects them with his gun as they move down the hallway. Peter replaced the death serum with a serum that would only paralyze her, not kill her. It turns out that Tris is not actually dead. 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